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male flowers at the summit, or several spikelets, the female ones short, 
ovate or globose, few-flowered, erect; stigmas 3. 
Subsect. Rupestres Tuckerm., l.c. p. 8. Utricles ovate, appressed to 
the rachis. 
140. C. rupestris All. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 133 and p. 288; Rosenv., Nye Bidrag p.70; 
Hartz, Nordést Grénl. p. 345; Dusén, Ost-Grénl. p. 55; Greely, Lady 
Frankl. Bay Exp. p.15; Nath., Spetsb. Karlv. p. 36; Ledeb. FI. Ross. IV 
p. 267; Kjellm. & Lundstr., Noy. Seml. p. 316; Kjellm., Vest-Eskim. Land 
p.58; Fl. D. tab. 1401, 2433. 
Rhizome creeping; culms erect, trigonous with sharp and scab- 
rous edges, as long as the 
leaves; leaves flat, scabrous 
on the margins; old sheaths 
| persistent; one monoecious, 
oblong-cylindrical terminal 
spike; female scales obtuse, 
ovate, brown, broader and 
longer than the  utricles; 
utricles lanceolate, obtusely 
trigonous, faintly nerved, dull, 
scabrous on the margins 
above and with a very short 
entire beak. 
Am.: Port Clarence, West 
Greenl. 64° 11’—72° 45’ (!), East 
Greenl. 70°—74° 10’ (). Eur.: 
Spitsbergen (!), Novaya Zemlya 
to 74°(!), Arctic Coast. 
Geogr. area: Northern 
North America, Iceland, North 
Europe, The Alps, Siberia, Altai. 
141. C. supina Wg., Kgl. Vet. Akad. Handl., 1803, p. 158. 
Lge. Consp. Fl. Groenl. p. 151; Hartz, Nordést Groénl. p. 347; Dusén, 
Ost-Grénl. p.57; Fl. D. tab. 2181; C. obesa All, var. minor Boot, Macoun, 
Catalogue [IV p. 163; C. glomerata Schkuhr, Riedgraser p. 79, tab. J, f 41; 
C. obtusata Trauty. Fl. rip. Kolym. p. 565, non Liljeblad. 
Rhizome with stolons; culms erect, trigonous with sharp and 
scabrous edges; leaves narrow, c. 1 mm. broad, scabrous on the 
upper side and on the margins; one sessile male spikelet; female 
ones 2—3, sessile, few(3—5)-flowered, globose, densely aggrega- 
ted; bracts not sheathing, scale-like, brownish with white membra- 
nous margins, the lowest with bristle-like blade; scales broadly 



Fig. 63. Carex rupestris All. °/, nat. size. 
(Spec. from East Greenland). 
